Senior Backend Engineer – Java Microservices & Architecture

GamblingCareers.com; Canada; On-site; CAD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Dental plan

Health Care Spending Account

24/7 virtual healthcare

RRSP & DPSP contribution

Parental leave top up

Paid vacation and sick time

Job summary

Rush Street Interactive is seeking a Senior Server Engineer to shape the backend platform, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality software across a distributed system. You will work with Product, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure to drive architectural excellence.

The role emphasizes designing scalable microservices, event-driven architectures with Kafka, and production readiness with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with strong backend engineering expertise.
• Advanced experience with Java and frameworks such as Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Dropwizard.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, DevOps practices, and AWS.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor engineers in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate, Dropwizard) and related technologies.
• Develop high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and service-to-service integrations for a highly available, distributed platform.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging.
• Build resilient integrations with internal and third-party systems, ensuring reliability through retry handling, idempotency, monitoring, and operational support.
• Define and evolve event contracts, payload schemas, API standards, versioning strategies, and integration patterns in collaboration with Product, Analytics, and Data Engineering.
• Drive platform modernization by reducing technical debt, simplifying legacy systems, and improving architecture through service consolidation.
• Ensure services are secure, observable, maintainable, and production-ready through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Lead production incident investigations, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, hiring, onboarding, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Dropwizard

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

AWS

Observability

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

AWS

Job description

Rush Street Interactive is seeking a Senior Server Engineer to shape the backend platform, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality software across a distributed system. You will work with Product, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure to drive architectural excellence.

The role emphasizes designing scalable microservices, event-driven architectures with Kafka, and production readiness with CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.